Category Archives: Music

Vanessa Peters: Flying On Instruments. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The clouds and storms of late have been moody, mean, and arguably fierce beyond compare, they have blocked our collective sight from seeing the land of safety and creativity from the air; and all we have been able to witness is the constant tsunami as it circles the world with terrifying speed.

Flying On Instruments alone does not always mean we have navigated from above with a greater precision than those who steer ships through the storm, but it can often be the truth that those that do might get to see and feel the warmth of the sun earlier and the land of opportunity and redemption with greater clarity.

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(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Dennis Van Aarssen And Jeff Franzel: Just Call It Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We Just Call It Love, and for some it may be a momentary lapse of reason in their day-to-day existence, a blip that starts to consume their being, that takes their brain and soul on a journey together which often defies reason; right until it makes sense, and then the harmony observed is crucial to the heart’s own intentions of feeling alive.

Art in any form is love, and no matter how you may find your own way to have your heartbeat faster, there is a part reserved for the classic of another’s tune to ignite a fire in your body that you may learn you should never have ignored.

Dennis Van Aarssen And Jeff Franzel: Just Call It Love. Album Review. full post

(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Neil Campbell: The Smoky God. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is uncommon to find yourself that struck by beauty that for a while it is impossible to convey exactly what you have witnessed. The temptation to flourish on the immediate arguably detrimental to the truth of your feelings, and it must be avoided at all costs lest your own quality fade.

Neil Campbell: The Smoky God. Album Review. full post

(372 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Niall McCabe: Rituals. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Everyday, whether we are conscious of it or not, we adhere to Rituals, to established practices or long-term traditions that have built up over time; to leave home by a certain time to avoid traffic, to listen to that last favoured song on the radio till its finale so that you ensure a good day, or even wearing a certain item of clothing, a colour that guarantees your endeavour is a success; we all do something that we have come to depend upon that gives our life a structure, a determination, a resolve that comes from deep within us and which materialises in the world around us.

Niall McCabe: Rituals. Album Review. full post

(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

In Autumn: What’s Done Is Done. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If you want blood, if you want uncontained rage, and if on top of that you want to see aggression of sound succeed, then in the period of autumn’s splendour shall you discover it; all you have to remember that the emotions uncovered are spectacular, that the beat of the Italian embrace of dark doom and ear-splitting destruction is what’s left when What’s Done Is Done and given the freedom to stomp all over the remains of the naysayers and the terminally dull.

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(328 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Magnum: Here Comes The Rain. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rarely are we presented with a moment in time in which we grieve as an artist leaves us just as their art is released into the world; it feels seismic, a moment the fan remembers for all time.

To focus on Magnum’s Here Comes The Rain without acknowledgement or understanding of the sense of loss to rock music and the band as the fiercely upsetting news of the passing of the phenomenal Tony Clarkin on the eve of what will be considered in time as perhaps a final studio hurrah, one that when delved into deeply finds the band, as always fronted the extraordinary voice of Bob Catley, arguably placing Time at the very forefront of their release.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Little Man Tate: Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a modern phrase designed to kick start our physical appetite for change, a symbolic gesture of how at some point in our development we reach a crossroads, a place where we are given no choice, no alternative but to move forward and take a greater degree of responsibility for the events that surround us, and have it shown to us as though it is a carnival of experience that we our glad to accept, but which in truth is a double edged sword, a reminder of a side of adult hood we are never truly prepared for.

Little Man Tate: Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life. Album Review. full post

(375 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Today Was Yesterday. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be unafraid to undertake an adventure, to explore beyond what is expected by a society, is to understand that all you have achieved so far life in your time on the spinning planet we call home has been nothing; for if Today Was Yesterday then tomorrow is what we must raise ambition for in the present and its victory.

The debut self-titled studio album from Today Was Yesterday is one of spectacle and illumination, it holds a duo of musically intoxicating guest appearances that make the hair stand on end and a lump in the throat quiver with emotional resonance.

Today Was Yesterday. Album Review. full post

(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

UFO: Lights Out (2024 Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Lights Out, revel in the sound that the darkness brings to your door and the senses, for there is a renewal of friendship and love ready to explode in your heart as UFO release the latest reaffirmation of metal history as their back catalogue receives the 180 gram and extended offering to a new generation of listeners and appeases those who have kept a lit vigil of their prowess from the start.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Gentle Giant: The Missing Piece (Steven Wilson Remix). 2024 Re-issue Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The catalyst for change does not always present itself with such acuteness as the rise in the popularity of a music genre which came to define a short-lived era but which would come to have huge repercussions to larger scales of music, to a genre that caught the attention of those with more than a simple hook in their minds to please.

Gentle Giant: The Missing Piece (Steven Wilson Remix). 2024 Re-issue Album Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)